How To Install jansson on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansson on Rocky Linux 8. jansson is C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansson on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `jansson`

Small library for parsing and writing JSON documents.

We can use yum or dnf to install jansson on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jansson.

Install jansson on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install jansson using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jansson

Install jansson on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install jansson using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jansson

How To Uninstall jansson on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the jansson package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove jansson

jansson Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/ccd98cc608ef2de7efd6dcc231ec15f00132f1
/usr/lib/libjansson.so.4
/usr/lib/libjansson.so.4.11.0
/usr/share/doc/jansson
/usr/share/doc/jansson/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/jansson/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/4f44bf8abbffceb7840ab585e2ed5627a7d140
/usr/lib64/libjansson.so.4
/usr/lib64/libjansson.so.4.11.0
/usr/share/doc/jansson
/usr/share/doc/jansson/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/jansson/LICENSE

References

jansson website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansson on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.